On the sixth of August 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, by the United States. A flash, stronger than the sun itself, followed by a fiery explosion within two tenths of a second completely annihilated the city. Those in the center of the blast disintegrated instantly, while others were doused in flames, and their skin slowly burned away. What had started as a silent morning, ended in a red glare from the firestorms that burned through the night. A few days later another Japanese city, Nagasaki, was obliterated by a second atomic bomb. These attacks were in an effort to end World War II promptly. But were these horrific attacks necessary? Japan had already been shattered in the previous year, the military reports asserted that the war was coming to a conclusion, and Russia was on the verge of declaring war...